Serbia won the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest with Molitva performed by Marija Serifovic. The atmosphere was hysterical in Helsinki Arena during the voting when everyone cheered on their favourites. For the first time ever the Eurovision winner will now be offered a promotional tour, this means that Marija will be travelling to six European countries during next week.
If you look at the complete score board you will notice that top 10 this year consists of 8 eastern European countries and only two west European countries. This has led to a flow of criticism on neighbourly voting this year. I can agree to the fact that neighbour voting was stronger and more clear than ever before in the history of the contest. If this is a problem well that needs to be discussed.
There could be a problem especially for the old west European countries were a number of countries has problems with keeping the interest for the contest, and bad results year after year don’t make that task any easier.
There should be said as well that there is also a need for big improvement in the standard of the songs from certain countries. Take this years UK entry that will never make on to any hit lists in the UK, why should it then make it to the top at Eurovision? The contest is taken more seriously in the eastern part of this continent and the west needs to view the contest in another way in the future. I anyhow think that there are a few countries like Belgium, Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland that are thinking if they will skip next years contest and that would ofcourse be a very bad decision for the contest.
But all this will be discussed in an intense way in the comming months. In the meantime let’s once again congratulate Serbia to it’s first and well deserved victory at this years contest. I also congratulate myself for one of few people that believed in Armenia, I love you Hayko, you did a wonderful performance last night and really deserved your 8th place in the contest. And thank god that Ukraine didn’t win, there are god after all.
See you in Belgrade in 2008 - Long Live Eurovision!!
